An Accurate Map of the West Riding of Yorkshire

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Northern Ireland Office, 1 Horse Guards Road

Emanuel Bowen was born in South Wales. He began his career as an apprentice to globe and instrument maker Charles Price. During his apprenticeship, he engraved maps for an ‘Atlas of the World’ (1717). In 1729 he produced his own ‘New and Accurate Map of South Wales’ and five topographical views of Welsh towns. He later drew 70 maps for his ‘Complete System of Geography’ (1744-47) and made a set of county maps for the ‘Large English Atlas’ (1760), in collaboration with map-maker Thomas Kitchen. Despite achieving the distinction of becoming geographer to George II in around 1747, Bowen’s obituary of 1767 stated that he died in ‘reduced circumstances’ - the result of ‘family extravagances’. His son, Thomas, was also an engraver and map-maker.

Places

England, Leeds, Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, River Trent, Humber Estuary, River Ouse

Subjects

spinner, map (as Subject), cartouche, landscape C18th, genre, townscape/cityscape, tree, cow, sheep, boy, man, woman, girl, church

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Emanuel Bowen (1693/4 - 1767)

Title

An Accurate Map of the West Riding of Yorkshire

Date

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Francis Edwards, November 1949

GAC number

987